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The facility’s roof consists of 3,000 tons of structural steel that support a PTFE membrane. The PTFE fabric is suspended from 430-foot-long structural steel trusses that support an array of structural steel v-columns. Design architect Populous designed the roof form and then worked in tandem with Walter P Moore to create the roof’s structure and subdivide it into trusses. All images and renderings courtesy Populous

411 on structural glazing

February 01, 2001 |

Web site from the U.S. distributor of the Pilkington Planar structural glass system offers applications and case studies of installations of the system, including the Rose Center in New York City and Imperial Bank Tower in Costa Mesa, Calif. Also included are details and examples of glass fins, tension structures, glass on steel, roofs, skylights and canopies.

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The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab, Allston, Mass., is the newest component of Harvard University’s growing innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Harvard students, faculty, and alumni interested in biotech, pharma, and other life sciences now have access to a fully equipped wet lab and support resources they need to take their ventures to the next stage of development. Photo: Robert Benson.